The 2024–25 Australian region cyclone season is an ongoing weather event in the southern hemisphere.
During the season, tropical cyclones will be officially monitored by one of the three tropical cyclone warning centres (TCWCs) for the region which are operated by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, National Weather Service of Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics.
Ahead of the season officially starting on 1 November, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) and New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) both issued a tropical cyclone outlook that discussed the upcoming season.
[2][3] These outlooks took into account a variety of factors such as a developing weak to moderate La Niña event and what had happened in previous seasons such as 1983–84, 1995–96, 2005–06 and 2017–18.
[5] Further consolidation due to a westerly wind burst, which also spawned a twin cyclone, prompted the Joint Typhoon Warning Center to first track it on 23 November.
[6] Despite deep convection being displaced due to moderate to high wind shear, the system's circulation became increasingly defined, prompting the JTWC to issue a tropical cyclone formation alert on the disturbance.
[citation needed] Tropical low 11U formed on 17 January, before moving westward, and absorbing TL 10U.
On 19 January, it was identified by the Bureau of Meteorology to have reached Tropical Cyclone status, and was named Sean.
[10] Sean has caused intense rainfall, and gale force winds across large sections of the Pilbara, and Gascoyne regions of Western Australia, including Onslow, and Exmouth.
The storm then stalled, and began an eye-wall replacement cycle, causing the rapid-intensification phase to end.
On 14 February, Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia made landfall at around 12:30 AWST in the afternoon near De Grey River mouth, northeast of Port Hedland at Category 4 intensity.